Improvement in feeding-mechanism for carding-machines



- @hinted met @met l'Letters Patent No. 86,954, dated Febr'uwry 16, 1869.

IWIPROVEMENT IN FEEDIIG-MECHANISM FOR CARDING-MACHINS The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, BENJAMIN W. TAUGEE, of Dorrville, in the county of Washington, and State of Rhode Island, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Mechanism for Feeding-Machines fory Oarding Wool, 85e.; and do hereby declare the following to be a full and correct description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making part of this specification, and to the letters and numbers of reference marked thereon, similar letters and numbers being used in all the gures to denote the same part.

In these drawings- Figure 1 is a top View.

Figure 2 is a horizontal section taken through yin the direction of the red line, g. 3.

Figure 3 is an end elevation.

This invention is an improvement on my tubes for feeding cards, for which a patent was allowed me, July 31,1868, and'consists in making the tubes with a selfadjusting and adjustable'top, 4so as more readily to accommodate the different sizes of drawings or rovngs to be carded. l y I a a a are the partitions of the tubes.

B is the top or cover, hung at its back edge, or at the ends, on pivots c 0 so that the front edge may be raised, as indicated by the dotted lines in g. 3.

The cover B is intended to lie on the rovings, as they draw through, with its full weight, but as that may, in some cases, be too much, thumb-screws o o are put in ears on the cover, and resting on blocks below, by which the cover may be adjusted.

The other part of my improvement consists in making an enlargement, S S, on the back edges of the partitions a a, to prevent the sharp edges from catching in any notches or inequalities that may bein the rovings.

:v a: represent thefeed-rolls of a card.

These'irnprovements are found in practice to work extremely well, and save the trouble of making a great variety of sizes of ythe tubes for different rovings, and enable any one vto change the size of their rovings With.- out changing the tubes they may have in use:

Having thus described my improvements,

What 1 claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A series of roving-tubes, having an adjustable cover, substantially as described, and for the purpose set forth.

2. A series of roving-tubes, substantially as described, having the back edge of the division-plate rounded, as and for the purpose set forth. A

' BENJAMIN W. TAUGEE. l

Witnesses: I

BENJAMIN ARNOLD, J AMES E. ARNOLD. 

